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First Day Cover | Yassıada[1] Trials
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[1] Yassıada has become synonymous with the May 27, 1960 military coup, the first in Republican history, the trials of the leading politicians of the time and the execution of Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, Finance Minister Hasan Polatkan and Foreign Minister Fatin Rüştü Zorlu. The three executed politicians have been seen as martyrs of democracy ever since. The Parliament restored the honor of the executed politicians at a session on April 11, 2010. The same law allowed the transfer of the bodies of Menderes, Polatkan and Zorlu from İmralı Island to a monument built in their honor in Istanbul's Vatan Avenue.
Menderes, the founder of the Democrat Party (DP) in 1945, which broke from the Republican People's Party (CHP) that had been governing the country as a single-party system since the founding of the Republic, and led it in the first multi-party elections in 1946. In the 1950 elections, the DP won a parliamentary majority and ran the country until the May 27, 1960 military coup. Menderes is seen as the first democratically-elected prime minister of the country. His term saw significant changes to counter the strict secularist policies of the preceding CHP era that alienated significant portions of the nation, coupled with economic reforms and major diplomatic realigning, including membership of NATO. The DP is seen by many as the predecessor of the liberal-conservative political movements of the Justice Party (AP) of the 1960s and 1970s, the Motherland Party (ANAP) of the 1980s and the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) of the 2000s.
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First Day Cover | Yassıada[1] Trials
[1] Yassıada has become synonymous with the May 27, 1960 military coup, the first in Republican history, the trials of the leading politicians of the time and the execution of Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, Finance Minister Hasan Polatkan and Foreign Minister Fatin Rüştü Zorlu. The three executed politicians have been seen as martyrs of democracy ever since. The Parliament restored the honor of the executed politicians at a session on April 11, 2010. The same law allowed the transfer of the bodies of Menderes, Polatkan and Zorlu from İmralı Island to a monument built in their honor in Istanbul's Vatan Avenue.
Menderes, the founder of the Democrat Party (DP) in 1945, which broke from the Republican People's Party (CHP) that had been governing the country as a single-party system since the founding of the Republic, and led it in the first multi-party elections in 1946. In the 1950 elections, the DP won a parliamentary majority and ran the country until the May 27, 1960 military coup. Menderes is seen as the first democratically-elected prime minister of the country. His term saw significant changes to counter the strict secularist policies of the preceding CHP era that alienated significant portions of the nation, coupled with economic reforms and major diplomatic realigning, including membership of NATO. The DP is seen by many as the predecessor of the liberal-conservative political movements of the Justice Party (AP) of the 1960s and 1970s, the Motherland Party (ANAP) of the 1980s and the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) of the 2000s.
